Quotes About Kindness

Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain.

Well, I must own that you are not at all goodnatured to your sisters, she said frankly. Not that I blame you for that - at least, not altogether! They seem positively to take delight in setting up your back! I wonder they shouldn't know that pinching at one's brothers is fatal! But whatever you may say you are not a monster of selfishness. You wouldn't be so kind to Jessamy and Felix if that were so.

Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existence; and when it obtruded itself on her notice it dimmed the warm sunshine in which she basked, and quite ruined her belief in a world where everyone was contented, and affluent, and cheerful.

Positively you overwhelm me!' my lord said. 'You oppress me with kindness, sir

Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.

Compassion certainly seems to be wasted on you, sir!' she said tartly. 'Yes, of course it is. Besides, I like you, and I shan't if you pity me.

Meg, as good-natured as her mother and brother, would have been amiable to anyone for whom her kindness had been solicited. Had she found herself confronted by a dazzling blonde she would not have spurned Kitty; but it could not be denied that the discovery that Miss Charing was a brunette immediately confirmed her in her conviction that she would like her prodigiously.

Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense.

she was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.

I allow you all the vices you choose to claim -- indeed, I know you for a gamester, and a shocking rake, and a man of sadly unsteady character! -- but I'm not so green that I don't recognize in you one virtue and least, and one quality.' 'What, is that all? How disappointing! What are they?' 'A well-informed mind, and a great deal of kindness.

Only if one was very cruel did one laugh at a boy in the throes of his first love.

If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.

That sort of thing always leads to trouble! It is all kindness, and I am sure I am quite as sorry for Miss Broughty as anyone, but one cannot make a friend of everybody in distressing circumstances!

Lord Charlbury might be constitutionally incapable of addressing her as Nymph, or of comparing bluebells unfavourably with her eyes, but Lord Charlbury would infallibly provide a cloak for her if the weather were inclement, lift her over obstacles she could well climb without assistance, and in every way convince her that in his eyes she was a precious being whom it was impossible to guard too carefully.

No one had ill- treated her; she had been suffocated with loving kindness

Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself.

To give is to receive—this is the law of Love. Under this law, when we give our Love away to others we gain, and whatever we give we simultaneously receive.

We are always expressing either Love or fear. Fear is really a call for help, and therefore a request for Love.

Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend.

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

Loving means sharing what you have however big or small it may be!

Watch. He is her dog. She took the thorn out of his foot.

Maggie had sent up a large basket of sandwiches and salad and pink lemonade with ice in it.

Gertrude Chandler Warner